CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook (FB) issued a press update on Monday October 4th, 2021, stating that all its online services across the world were down because of a configuration error that couldn’t be fixed on time as most of its staff were working from home.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

New York Metropolitan Transport Authority, well known shortly as MTA was reportedly hit by a cyber attack in April this year and sources report that the incident was limited only to some systems and no employee or customer info was compromised. .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Dream, an AI cybersecurity startup, has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures to bolster its mission of defending nations and critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The post AI Cybersecurity Firm Raises $100 Million to Strengthen National Security appeared first on eSecurity Planet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to a research carried out by Check Point Research, a 50% rise in cyber attacks is being witnessed year on year and the target points were mostly touted to be the organizations operating in education/research and military or government sectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 28, 2021

Cancer treatment services across the United States have taken a big hit as a cyber attack is said to have disrupted the software services operating in the High-tech radiation machines used to treat the malign disease. The post Cancer Treatment across United States halted by Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 22, 2021

The US Department of Defense Cyber Command has disclosed in a tweet that the US State Department was hit by a cyber attack, just a couple of weeks ago, hinting at a serious data breach. The post Details of US State Department Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s take a Cyber Drink to 2021 Cybersecurity professionals have been put in the spotlight this year. Gone are the days when cybersecurity could operate in a silo. Read article > The post A Toast to the Cybersecurity Incidents of 2021 appeared first on Axio. It’s now a business.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A Cyber Attack that took place on UK’s Defence Academy early last year was brought to light by Air Marshall Edward Stringer through an interview given to Sky News. The Former Director of the academy stated that the attack went unnoticed by the media as it was not given priority as its consequences were not severe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 26, 2021

Adding to this torment is a report released by Eurocontrol that says that most of the airliners are facing the constant threat of being hit by a sophisticated cyber attack. According to the report, a total of 775 cyber attacks were launched on airlines over the course of 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2021

To all those who are concerned about the increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry, here’s an interesting finding to analyze. During a webinar conducted by Riviera, they revealed that the Human errors are causing an increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Going with the details, Oldsmar, a small town in FL consisting 14,000 people as populace, was hit by a cyber attack on February 5th of 2021. The post Hackers try to poison Florida citizens through Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

Sources reporting to our Cybersecurity Insiders say that the hackers managed to gain access to nearly 750GB of data and stole it; only to post it on the dark web after few days. That will help other companies take proactive Cybersecurity measures before any untoward takes place.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

From the past few months, the fear of being cyber attacked seems to have gripped most of the technologists so much that every small outage is being considered because of cyber attack. While the American tech giant has stated that most of the services were restored by 4Pm on February 3rd,2021.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2021, law enforcement continued making a tremendous effort to track down, capture and arrest ransomware operators, to take down ransomware infrastructure, and to claw back ransomware payments. Related: The targeting of supply chains. In 2022 we expect to see more aggressive and complex ransomware efforts. Central importance of identity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Atlassian issued an update that the software vulnerability was identified by its security engineers on August 2021 and a fix was issued in the same month. However, there is no evidence that the information reached the hands of hackers as no threat group yet has come forward to take a claim of a cyber attack or the data breach.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The ransomware attack caused significant service disruptions to local transportation in Pittsburgh. The agency has notified law enforcement and is investigating the security breach with the assistance of cybersecurity experts. ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 4, 2021

Just when the media has speculated a possible Chinese cyber attack on the power grids operating in South India, an NGO foundation has alleged that the National Stock Exchange(NSE) of India was hit by a cyber attack on February 24th,2021 disrupting most of the operations for the whole day.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2021

However, this blog’s point is that these forms of cyber attacks will continue and could likely accelerate. The post Best of 2021 – What We Can Learn From the 2021 Microsoft Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. Trying to react after the fact is not the way to do business.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2022

According to the email sent to its customers on June 2nd of this year, the bank’s management detected unauthorized access to the company’s IT network between December 3rd, 2021 and December 4th, 2021. There is no information on why the bank took almost 5-6 months to inform the details of the cyber attack on its valuable customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2021

Cybersecurity Researchers from Mandiant have disclosed that millions of IoT devices operating across the globe were vulnerable to cyber attacks because of a flaw in Kalay Cloud platform software supplied by ThroughTek.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Familiarising With The Term Cyber Security You must have heard of the word cyber security, making headlines in the news, internet, social media, The post 5 Major Reasons for “Why is Cyber Security Important?” The post Best of 2021 – 5 Major Reasons Why Cybersecurity is Important appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Disclosing the fact that the quad countries were seen working on a special squad to avoid cyber massacres such as the one that hit SolarWinds and Microsoft; Mr. Sullivan stated that they were in the process of gathering information to avoid such state-funded attacks in the future. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

On the security front, a research carried out by Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that the cyber attacks on online business will bring an estimated loss of $6 trillion to companies operating across the globe by 2021 and the gaming industry is said to be impacted the most.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

The start of 2021 brings forth a cyber security crossroads. One of the most concerning cybersecurity trends this year is closely connected to 2020. Ransomware and fileless malware breaches will rapidly continue to destabilize businesses in 2021. Related: Breaches spike during pandemic. Targeting remote workers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a statement issued by the delivery giant yesterday, the 5 centuries old non-profit government organization is busy investigating a cyber incident that brought its operations to knees from early this month. Russia linked hackers group dubbed LockBit Ransomware is suspected to be behind the cyber attack and a probe is still on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

The post Joe Biden government cyber attacks REvil aka Sodinokibi Ransomware Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. More details are awaited!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Just within 3 weeks of confirmation, Singapore Telecommunication LTD aka SingTel has confirmed another data breach after Optus Cyber Attack. It has issued a press update saying its Australian company Dialog Pty faced a digital attack last week leaking details of only 20 clients.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2021

All the world leaders who took part at the G7 Summit held in Cornwall, UK have agreed on a unanimous note that ransomware and cyber attacks have emerged as the biggest threats to their nation in recent times. The post Ransomware and Cyber Attacks were hot topics at G7 Summit appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, the Department of Defense Cyber Command might have suffered a serious breach. — Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 21, 2021. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The post Gloucester City Council hit by a possible Ransomware Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. But now they are involved in double extortion tactics where they sell the data if the victim fails to pay the demanded ransom for any reason.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Patrick Davidson, the company’s director, issued a press statement that his company’s new policy titled “Cyber War and Cyber Operation Exclusion Clauses” was included after making a detailed survey of pulling back cyber coverage in certain situations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 3, 2023

A cyber attack launched and identified on March 26th of this year has triggered the incident response teams of Western Digital (WD) to take appropriate steps to mitigate the cyber risks of the incident. However, it assured to the media that it will reveal more of the cyber incident details after the probe gets done.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2021

Investigation revealed that Domain was a victim of a phishing attack where hackers gained access to the administrative privileges of the website and contacted people looking for rental properties to demand money for securing a property for hire. . “It

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amedia, the Norway’s second largest media company, has issued a public statement that it was hit by a cyber attack that crippled its printing infrastructure affecting its newspaper editions on temporary basis. The post Cyber Attack on Norway Amedia appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Google, the business subsidiary of tech giant Alphabet Inc has released a security statement that reveals that over 50,000 users were warned about state funded attacks in this year 2021, so far. The post Google alerts over 50k users about State funded Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As most of the UK populace have decided to stay home and shop safely online ( because of the rise in Omicron Covid variant cases) security experts are expecting a two-fold rise in credentials stuffing cyber attacks in this year. As most of the web traffic will be busy in buying gifts and luxuries for their loved ones.

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